托福阅读推断题技巧

　　托福阅读推断题技巧，来看一个题型。

　　Which of the following can be inferred from paragraph 3 about gushers?

　　题干中出现“infer”，判定为推断题，可以以“gushers”为定位词阅读理解定位句后推理。

　　Petroleum Resources

Oil pools are valuable underground accumulations of oil, and oil fields are regions underlain by one or more oil pools. When an oil pool or field has been discovered, wells are drilled into the ground. Permanent towers, called derricks, used to be built to handle the long sections of drilling pipe. Now portable drilling machines are set up and are then dismantled and removed. When the well reaches a pool, oil usually rises up the well because of its density difference with water beneath it or because of the pressure of expanding gas trapped above it. Although this rise of oil is almost always carefully controlled today, spouts of oil, or gushers, were common in the past.

　　不要被ETS爸爸的妖魔鬼怪吓到呀！安安静静地查找gushers这个词，相信你一定能看到“although…gushers…in the past”最后一句话。恰好，这句话出现了“although”「句间逻辑」考点，那推理一定是围绕着转折话题上。

　　套用刚刚的思路，理解转折重点是匹配反义词组。而在这句话中rise of oil=spouts of oil= gushers, 剩下的词语中就能找到了“controlled”VS “common” + “today”VS “in the past”两组反义词。也就是说，在这句话中controlled=uncommon/ common=did not control.

　　明白了这层语意后，我们来看下选项。

　　A. They make bringing the oil to the surface easier.

　　B. They signal the presence of huge oil reserves.

　　C. They waste more oil than they collect.

　　D.They are unlikely to occur nowadays.

　　四个选项时态均为一般现在时，意味着对现在gushers状况推断。而定语句分析中，我们已经知道，它的特点是“controlled=uncommon”.D选项“unlikely to occur=uncommon=controlled”,是不是就乖乖到你碗里了～

　　看，不管阅读题怎么出，只要你能读懂逻辑内容，根本难不倒你～